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Mumomht'8 Utsitian, 
MODERN 

FLASH DICTIONARY 

CONTAINING ALL THE 

CANT WORDS, SLANG TERMS, 

AND 

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TO WHICH IS ADDED, 

A List of the Sixty Orders 

OF 

IPiaHMH <B<DTIH8« 

■* Ail England now are slanging it.'' 



BY G-EOSLGE KENT, 
HISTORIAN TO THE PRIZE RING. 



In this Work will he found 

Numerous Words and Flash Sayings 

never before in Print. 



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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Abbess, a bawd, the mistress 
of a bawdyken 

Abbott's Priory, the King's 
Bench Prison 

Abram Cove, a naked or poor 
man, a sturdy beggar in 
rags 

Above par — having the need- 
ful, possessed of the poney, 
plenty of money, ( best 
bliss of earth' 

Abram men — fellows dressing 
themselves in various rags, 
old ribbons, fox tails, beg- 
ging in the streets, pre- 
tending to be mad, fellows 
who steal pocket books 
only 

Abram, to sham — to slum, to 
pretend sickness 

Academy — a brothel, bagnio 

Academican — a scholar at an 
academy, a whore at a bro- 
thel 

Academy, a floating — a hulk 
at Woolwich for convicts 

Ack ruffians — rogues who in 
con/unction with watermen 
sometimes rob and murder 
on the water 

Ack pirates — fresh water 
♦heWes who steal on navi- 
nbJe rivers 

Acting the deceitful, perform- 

4 ing, mumming, acting 



Adam — a henchman, aa ac* 
complice 

Adam's ale, our first father's 
drink, water, ( best with 
brandy' 

Adam tiler, a receiver of sto- 
len goods, a pickpocket, a 
fence 

Affair of honour — killing an 
innocent man in a duel 

All set— desperate fellows, 
ready for any kind of mis- 
chief 

Alderman in chains — turkey 
and sausages 

Alive — awake, fly, up, leary, 
acquainted with 

All out, the reckoning drank 
out, ( How stands the ac- 
count 'twixt me and ven 
geance?* 

Ambidexter, one who snacks 
in gaming with both parties 

Amen curler — a parish clerk 

Anglers, or starrers, an order 
o: thieves who break show 
glasses in jeweller's win- 
dows to steal the goods. 

Angling cove — a receiver of 
stolen goods 

Angelica,— young unmarried 
ladies 

Anointed — knowing, ripe for 
mischief 

Arm props — crutches 
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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Arch rogue— the chief of a 
gang of thieves, or gyp- 
sies 

A rch doxey — the same among 
female canters or gypsies. 
Astronomer — a star gazer, a 
horse that carries his head 
high 

As right as atrtvit, the tippy, 
all right 

A pig's whisper — a grunt, c a 
word 'twixt you and me' 

Aunt, — a bawd, sometimes 
called mother 

Autem— a church, meeting- 
house 

Autem cacklers, dissenters of 
all sects 

Autem bawler, a preacher, a 
parson 

Autem dippers — anabaptists 

Autem cackle tub, a meeting 
house for dissenters, a 
pulpit 

Autem divers, — pickpockets 
who practice in churches ; 
also churchwardens and 
overseers of the poor, who 
defraud, deceive, and im- 

' pose on the parish 

Autem gogglers — conjurors, 
fortune tellers 

Autem mor , or mot — a wo- 
man of the same sect, a 
beggar, a prostitute 

Autem quaver's tub, a qua- 
ker's meeting house 

B. 
Babes in the wood — rogues 

in the stocks or pillory 
Bacon-laced— full faced 



Back slums, low unfrequent- 
ed parts in the metropolis 

Badge coves, — parish pen- 
sioners 
i Badge, one burnt in the 

hand 
i Badger, to confound, per 
plex, or tease 

Badgers, — forestallers and 
murderers 

Bag the swag — pocket your 
portion, hide your whack 

Baggage — a slut, a common 
prostitute 

Ball o'wax — a snob, a shoe- 
maker 

Ballum ranorum, a hop, or 
a dance, where the women 
are all prostitutes 

Balsam — rag, rhino, money 

Balm, a lie 

Bandog, a bum-bailiff 

Bank — a depository for cash 
at a gaming-table 

Bandy — a tanner, a sixpence 

Banyan day — Saturday, when 
there's nothing left to eat 

Bantling a young child 

Bar that — cheese it, stow it, 
don't mention it 

Barber's clerks, — conceited 
ignorant shop-boys 

Bark, an Irishman 

Barker, a salesman's servant, 
a prowler to pick up coun- 
trymen in the streets 

Barking irons, pistols 

Barnacles, spectacles 

Battered bully, an old gloak 
well milled, huffing fellow 

Bawd, a procuress, a woman 
that keeps a brothel 



V L ASM D I CT I O N A R Y . 



Battner, an ox 

Beak, a justice of the peace, 

a magistrate 
Beak, rum, a justice who 

will do any thing for 

money 
Beak, queer, — a magistrate 

that is particularly strict 

to his duty 
Beaks out on the nose, ma- 
gistrates out on a search 

night 
Beaksmen — traps 
Bear leader — a gravelling 

tutor 
Beat — a watchman's walk 
Beaver or tile — a hat 
Bnck or harman, a beadle 
Beeswax — cheese 
Belch, malt liquor 
Ben, or Sam — a raw, a no- 
vice 
Beau traps -genteel dressed 

sharpers, fortune hunters 
Beef— to alarm, discover, to 

pursue 
Belly cheat—an apron, a 

pad 
Belly timber — food of all 

sorts 
Belly-go- fister — a hard blow 

on the belly 
Bene — prime, good 
Bene cove — hearty fellow, 

a tr mp 
Bene bowse — good beer 
Bene of gibes — counterfeiters 

of passes 
Bene darmans — good night 
Bene fakers — counterfeiters 
Bender — a shilling 



Benjamin — a top coat, a 
great coat 

Betty — a small picklock 

Bever —an afternoon's lun- 
cheon 

Better half — an ironical name 
for a wife 

Biddy — a . fowl, a capon, or 
chicken ; a young chicken 

Bilboa — a sword, or any 
pointed instrument 

Billing and cooing — thesexe9 
humbugging one another; 
courting 

Bilk — to swindle, cheat 

Bing — to cut, go away 

Bingo — spirituous liquors 

Bingo boy — a male dram 
drinker 

Bingo mot — a female dram 
drinker 

Bit — money 

Big'uns — men of conse- 
quence 

Bit — taken in, duped 

Bit, queer — counterfeit mo- 
ney 

Bit cull — a coiner 

Bit smasher — an utterer of 
base coin 

Bit of cavalry— a knacker, a 
saddle horse 

Bit ol muslin — a flame, a 
sweetheart 

Birch, to — to yield, to give 
up an attempt thro' fear 

Bitch, to, a character — or 
to perform any thing badly 

Biting your name in — tak- 
ing a large draught, drink- 
ing greedily 
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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Blab — a prating stupid fellow, 

a fool 
Blab, to — to nose, to chatter, 

to tell secretd 
Black beetles — the lower or- 
der of people 
Black diamonds — coals, or 

coal heavers 
Black boy — a clergyman 
Black Indies — Newcastle 
Black-strap — port wine 
Black box, or knob — a lawyer 
Black spy— an informer 
Black act — act of picking 

locks 
Black cove dubber — a gaoler 

or turnkey 
Black-legs — sharpers, fellows 
who lay wagers, and after 
losing cannot pay them ; 
a professed gambler 
Black houses — prisons 
Blank — frustrated, baffled 
Blarney— a wonderful story, 

flattery. See Gammon. 
Bleaters — Iambs, sheep 
Bleats — a sheep stealer 
Bleak mot — a fair girl 
Bleeder — a crammer, [a lie 
Blind, to — to cheat under a 

pretence 
Blind harpers — itinerant va- 
gabonds with harps 
Blinker — a one eyed horse 
Block— jemmy, pipkin, head 
Block houses — prisons 
Blow out — a belly full^ an 

extraordinary meal 
Blow a cloud — smoking a 

pipe 
Blow the gab — to split, to 
espose, inform 



Blow— to split, tell, expose 
Blow me tight — a sort of bur 
lesque oath ; as, If I don' 
I'm jigger'd, &c. 
Blowings — prostitutes 
Blue ruin — gin 
Blue devils, blues — low spi- 
rits, horror struck 
Blue pigeon filers, or flyers 
— thieves who steal lead 
from the tops of houses 
and churches 
Blubber — lo whine, to cry 
Bluff — to bluster, look big 
Bluffer — an impudent im- 
posing fellow of an inn- 
keeper 
Blunderbuss — a stupid igno- 
rant fellow 
Blunt — tip, rag, money 
Boarding school — a house of 

correction, or prison 
Bob-- a shilling 
Bob — a shoplifter's assistant 
Bob-stick — n hog, a shilling 
Bobtail — a lewd woman, or 

prostitute 
Bobbery — a disturbance, a 

row 
Bobbish — tol lol, pretty well 

in health 
Body bag — a shirt 
Body snatchers — bailiffs, po- 
lice officers 
Boggy — kiddy, covey 
Bog trotters- — lower order 

oi Irishmen 
Bogey — old Nick, the devil 
Boh the noon — to cheat the 
landlord by taking the 
goods away in the nigh* 
without paying the rent 



PLASH DICTIONARY. 



Bolt— cut, go, make yourself 

scarce 
Bolted — hopped the twig, 

shuffled, gone 
Bone- to steal 
Bone box — the mouth 
Bone setter — a hackney coach 
Bonnetter— a thump on the 

hat 
Bon vivant — a choice spirit, 

a jolly dog 
Booth — a place for harbour- 
ing thieves 
Booked — in for it, dished 
Booze — drink 
Boozy — drunk 
Boozing ken — a lush crib, a 

sluicery, ale-house 
Bore— a tedious story, or a 

vexatious circumstance 
Bordell — a bawdyken, house 

of ill fame 
Bottle-head — stupid, void of 

sense 
Bought — any thing that's 

dearly paid for 
Bounce — to lie, to swagger 
Bounceable — proud, saucy 
Bower, the — Newgate 
Bowsprit — cork snorter, the 

nose 
Bow wow mutton — cag mag, 

dog's flesh, bad ill-looking 

meat 
Bow wow broth, — broth 

made of stinking meat 
Bow mam — a thief 
Box o'dominos — mouth and 

teeth 
Box of ivory — the teeth 
Box Harry — to go without 

victuals 



Boxed — locked up 

Boxing a Charley — upsetting 
a watchman in his box 

Brads — money 

Brass — impudence 

Bracket face — devilish ugly 

Bravoes — bullies 

Bread basket— the stomach 

Breaking shins — borrowing 
money 

Breeze, kicking up a— excit- 
ing a disturbance 

Brisket-beater — a RomanCa- 
tholic 

Brick — a loaf 

Broads — cards 

Brogue — Irish accent 

Broom — go, cut, be gone 

Browns — copper coin 

Brown Bess — a soldier's fire- 
lock 

Brown suit — no go 

Brown gater droppings, hea- 
vy wet, heavy brown, beer 

Brush, or buy a brush — be ofl 
make yourself scarce 

Brusher — a full glass 

Brushed off—run away 

Bub — guzzle, drink 

Bubble— to cheat, defraud 

Bub-rum — good liquor 

Bub, queer — bad liquor 

Buff, to — to swear falsely, to 
perjure 

Buffer — a perjuror 

Buffer napper — dog stealer 

Bug — to damage 

Buggaboes — sheriff's officers 

Buggy — a one-horse chaise 

Bugging—money taken by 
bailiffs not to arrest a per- 
son 



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FLASH D1CTIONARV. 



Bull — a blunder 

Bull — crown -piece 

Bull, half — half a crown- 
piece 

Bull dogs — pistols 

Bulk— a fellow that attends a 
pickpocket, to receive sto- 
len goods 

Bully — a cowardly blustering 
fellow, pretended husband 
to a bawd or prostitute 

Bully rocks — impudent vil- 
lains, kept to preserve or- 
der in houses of ill fame 

Bully traps — pretended con- 
stables called to frighten 
he unwary and extort mo- 
ney 

.Bum — a bailiff 

Bum'd — arrested 

Bunch of dog's meat — a 
squalling child in arms 

Bunch of fives — the closed 
hand, the fist 

Bunch of onions — chain and 
seals 

Bunter — a low-life woman 

Buntlings — petticoats 

Bung-eyed — drunk, tipsy 

Burning the ken — vagabonds 
residing in an alehouse, 
and leaving it without pay- 
ing the reckoning 

Buss — a kiss 

Bustle — ready, money 

Buster, or burster — a loaf of 
bread 

Button — a bad shilling 

Buttering up— praising, flat- 
tering 

Buttock and file — pickpocket 

Bnzman— a pickpocket 



Buz — a pickpocket 
Bye blow — a bastard 

C. 

Cabbage, — tailors' perqui- 
sites 

Cadger— a beggar, a scran- 
ning cove, a mean sort of 
thief 

Cagmag — stinking, or bad 
meat 

Cake — an easy stupid fellow 

Camesa — a shirt or shift 

Canary bird — the inmate of 
a prison 

Cank — dumb, silent 

Cannister — see Block 

Cant — mock religion, lan- 
guage of methodist9 

Canter gloak — a parson, a 
liar 

Canting — language of thieves 
gypsies, beggars, #c. 

Canting crew, — impostors 
who go about preaching 
methodists, &c. 

Canticle — a parish clerk 

Cap, to — to out do, to beat 

Caper merchant — a dancing 
master 

Captain tober — first rate 
highwayman 

Captain — head of a gang, a 
bully 

Captain Flasham — a bluster- 
ing fellow, a coward 

Captain queer Nabs — a dirty 
fellow without shoes 

Captain Sharp — a cheat, a 
bully 
j Caravan — great quantity o, 
money 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Carrion case — shirt or shift 

Carrion hunters — underta- 
kers 

Castor — a tile, a hat 

Cass— cheese 

Cast your skin — strip naked 

Cat — a drunken, fighting 
prostitute 

Cat's meat — the constitution 
the body 

Cat's-meat shop — an eating 
house 

Catastrophe — behind, seat of 
honour 

Catchpole— bail iff 

Catgut scraper — a violin 
player 

Cavil — to jaw, quarrel 

Cavon — an old wig, or jasey 

Chimmv — a shift 

Chaff"— Irritating, or ironical 
language, to banter 

Chaffer — the mouth 

Chaffing crib — a drinking 
room where bantering is 
carried on 

Chalk — advantage 

Chalks — the legs 

Chant — a flash song 

Chancery, head in — said, in 
fighting, of him whose head 
is held fast under the arm 
of his antagonist, and gets 
punished with little chance 
of extricating himself, un- 
less he floors his man 

Charley — a watchman 

Charm — picklock 

Chats — lice 

Chates— - the gallows 

Chaw-bacons, — countrymen, 
bumpkins 



Cheeks — an imaginary per 
son; nobody ; as, who does 
that belong to ? Cheeks. 

Cheese it — stow it, give over 
drop it 

Cheese-cutters — bandy legs 

Chere amie — a bed fellow, a 
sweetheart 

Chickster — a flame, a pros- 
titute 

Chink— rhino, rag, money 

Chiv — a bleeder, a knife 

Chizzle, to — gammon, cheat 

Chuff— jolly, merry 

Chum— a bedfellow, a com- 
panion, fellow prisoner 

Chummy, or clergyman — a 
sweep 

Civil rig — a trick of the beg- 
gars to obtain by over civi- 
lity 

Clean shirt day — Sunday 

Clankers— silver tankards 

Clapper dudgeon— a beggar 
born 

Claret — blood 

Cleaned out — mucked, having 
lost all your money 

Clench it— complete the thing 
finish the business 

Clerked — cheated, imposed 
upon 

Clicks in the gob — thumps in 
the mouth 

Click — a knock down blow 

Clinkers — fetters 

Clickman toad — a watch* 



* It was originally called so from 
the following circumstance. A gen- 
tleman passing through some part 
of the West of England, by acci- 
den* lost his watch, and a gre«n- 



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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Clink, to — to nab, to snatch 
Clockey — a watchman 
Cloy — to steal 
Cly, or clie, a pocket 
Coach wheel — a crown piece 
Cock-chafer — a lady -bird, a 

prostitute 
Cloaker — drop at Newgate 
Coffee-mill, watchman's rattle 
Cock — a trump, good fellow 
Cob— a dollar 
Cobble colter — a turkey 
Cog — to cheat with dice 
Cogue— a glass of gin 
Colt — one who lets horses to 

highwaymen 
Coal-scuttle— a large bonnet 
Cole, or coal — -blunt, money 
Collector — a highway robber 
Colguarin — the neck 
College — the King's Bench, 

or Fleet Prison 
Commission — a shirt 
Commission, to shake your — 

to shake your whole frame 
Conk — the sneezer, the nose 
Convenient — a mistress 
Cooler — a glass of porter 
Coal-box — chorus of a song 
Cod — haughty meddling fool 



horn hearing it tick imagined it to 
be some live creature; so with the 
greatest astonishment carried it to 
his neighbours, who, equally ama- 
zed as himself, (for none of them 
had ever heard uf such a thing as a 
watch) thought it was some reptile, 
and so christened it a ' Click man 
toad f and with a view to get a 
breed of young clickman toads, put 
it with a real toad ; but after ma- 
king many fruitless trials, they all 
assembled together and dashed its 
brain i oat for madness. 



Come down — to give stand 

treat ^ 

Come out, worse than-*verj ' 

bad, execrable 
Communicator — bell 
Conk — the nose 
Collar — to grab, snatch 
Cooped — in durance vile, to 

lock up in a gaol 
Corinth — a brothel 
Coriander seed — money 
Corinthians — men of rank 
Corpus — the body 
Core — the heart 
Coppers — halfpence 
Con vey ancers — thieves 
Costermongers, jackass boys 

venders of greens, &c. 
Cove, or covey— a fellow 
Cove — a receiver of stolen 

goods 
Covess of a ken — a female 

keeper of a brothel 
Cove, lumber — a person that 

keeps a place for thieves 
Cover me decent — a top tog, 

a greatcoat 
Cover me properly — fashion- 
able toggery 
Cover me queerly — ragged 

raiment 
Court-card, a trump 
Counting-house, Mrs. Jones's 

the privy 
| Cozy fuss — hilling & cooing; 
! Crabb- shells — shoes 
Crack — to break open 
Cracksman- -a housebreaker 
Crack'd cannister — a broken 

head 
i Cramp-rings — fetters 
Crammer — a lie 



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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



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Cramp words, — sentence of 
death passed on a criminal 

Crap — money 

Crapp'd — hanged 

Crapingcurl — an executioner 

Creeme, to — to put money in 
the hands of another 

Crank — gin and water 

Crib — to thieve 

Cribb — a ken, a mean look- 
ing room 

Crikey — a word of wonder- 
ment 

Crimp — a decoyer. kidnapper 

Crony — a companion 

Cropping — the tail 

Cross, on the — getting a li- 
ving by dishonest means 

Cross fight— a sold battle 

Cross bite — to cheat a friend 

Cross the herring pond — 
transported to Botany-bay 

Crowdsman — -a fiddler 

Crummy — fat 

Crusty — vexed, chagrined 

Cub — a young child 

Cucumbers — tailors 

Cuffin queer — a magistrate 

Culch — cag-mag meat, or the 
refuse of any thing 

Culp — a kick 

Cup-hot — very drunk 

Cur — a sneak, a coward 

Curbing law — to take goods 
out of window 

Curl — clippings of money 

Curlers— Jews who sweat 
gold coin by rubbing them 
together, for tl e dust 

Oursi'ons — broken down 
lawyers, Newgate attor- 
neys 



Cussin — a man 

Cut — sheer off, go, avoid, or 

shun a companion 
Cut bene — to speak gently 

D. 

Dab — a bed 

Dab— one who is clevis 

Dad — a father 

Datify — max, gin 

Dagen — a sword 

Daddle — the hand 

Damn — to crush, to do away 

with a drama 
Damp your mugs — wet yom 

mouth, drink 
Dandy — a swell, an exqui- 
site 
Dancers — stairs * 

Darby — ready money 
Darbies — sausages, fetters 
Darby's fair — the day when 
felons are removed to New- 
gate for trial 
Darkey — night 
Darkmans — the night 
Darken the daylights — to 

close up the eyes 
Dash — a waiter 
Dash — a portion 
Daylights — the eyes 
Dealers in queer — passers 01 

bad money 
Dead beat— done over 
Derrick, to — to set out on an 

enterprize 
Deuce — twopence 
Deux wins — two pence 
Dews — a cruu n-piece 
Dew-beaters — the feet 
Diamond squad, — folks of 
quality, big'uns 



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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Diamond a horn, to— to put 

a stone under the shoe, to 

sham walking lame 
Diddle — spirituous liquors 
Diddle cove-— landlord of a 

gin shop, &c. 
Diddle — to cheat 
Die proud, or game— to 

die with courage, or har- 
dened 
Dimmock — money 
Dimber — handsome, pretty 
Dimber damber — the king of 

the canting crew 
Dimber cove — a pretty cove, 

or fellow 
Dimber mot — an enchanting 

girl 
Ding — to throw away 
Ding boy — a rogue, knave, 

or sly fellow 
Dinger — a pickpocket, or 

thief 
Dipper —anabaptist 
Dock yarder — a skulk in any 

sly place 
Doctors — false dice 
Doff — to uncover, take your 

hat off 
Dollop — a handfull 
Dominic — a parson 
Done brown, — done over, 

queered, floored 
Donovans — potatoes 
Donkey's ears — a false collar 
Don't name 'ems — breeches 
Don't know what to call'ems 

— inexpressibles, breeches 
Dorse — a place of rest 
Douse the glim— blow out 

the light 



Doughey — a baker 

Down — fly, awake, knowing 

Down in the mouth — having 
nothing to say, low spi- 
rited 

Doxy — girl of the town 

Dozing cribb — a sleeping 
room 

Drag — a cart, or waggon 

Drap — a drop 

Draw it mild — geitlv 

Draw latches — ro&jers of 
houses 

Drawers — -stockings 

Drawing a cork — giving a 
bloody nose 

Drawing a thimble — picking 
a pocket of a watch 

Drawing a wiper — picking a 
pocket of a handkerchief 

Drawing a long bow — telling 
a lying story for truth 

Dromedary — a clumsy thief, 
a young beginner 

Drop — the squeezer at New- 
gate 

Drops — who go about to 
public houses to cheat un- 
wary countrymen at cards 

Droppings — heavy wet, beer 

Dub — a key 

Dub the jigger — fasten the 
door 

Dubber — a picker of locks 

Duds — togs, clothes 

Duds cheat — ragged, poor 

Duffers — swindlers, who go 
about with articles pre- 
tending they are smuggled 
and to sell them at an ap- 
parently cheap rate 



PLASH DICTIONARY. 



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Dummy — a itupid fellow,one 
who has nothing to say lor 
himself 

Duke of limbs — a deformed 
person 

Dunnaken — if it be necessary 
to explain the word — a 
privy 

Dupe — a victim to artifice 
and misrc presentation 

Durance viie — prison 

Dutch reckoning— bad reck- 
oning 

Dust — money 

Dustman — sleep, or drowsi- 
ness 

E. 

Earwig - a crony, a close 
friend 

Earth stoppers — horses feet 

Elbow shaker — a dice rat- 
tler, a gambler 

English Burgundy — strong 
beer 

Eriffs — young thieves in 
training 

Eve droppers — vagabonds 
who rob hen roosts 

F. 

Facer— a blow on the face, 

a bumper 
Fadge- -a farthing 
Fag — to ill use, to work hard 
Fakements — scraps, morsels, 
Fast trotters — good horses, 

rum prads 
Fam — a ring 

Fams, or fambles — hands 
Fancy—the ton of low life 
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Farmer — an alderman 
Fastener — a warrant 
Faulkner — a juggler, a tum- 
bler 
Fawney — a ring 
Feck, to — to discover which 

is the safest way of ob 

taining stolen goods 
Feeder — a spoon 
Feint — pawnbroker 
Felt— a hat 
Fem — a hole 
Fence — a receiver cf stolen 

goods 
Fencing ken — a house where 

stolen goods are deposited 
Feret — a pawnbroker 
Fib — to fight, to box 
Fibbing — pummelling a head 

while in chancery 
Flick me some panea and cas- 

sau — cut me some bread 

and cheese 
Fiddler — a sixpence 
Fiddle — watchman's rattle 
Fiery snorter — a red nose 
Field-lane duck — a baked 

sheep's head 
Fig out — to dress 
Figure — a little boy put in at 

a window to hand goods 

to his accomplices 
Filcher — a thief 
File, a rum — an odd fellow 
Filch — to steal 
Fin — arm 
Fishfag — a woman that sells 

fish 
Fishhooks — the fingers 
Fives — the fingers 
Fives, a bunch of— the fist 

the hand closed 



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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Flag — groat, fburpence 
Flame — a bit of muslin, a 

sweetheart 
Flankey — the behind, the 

part you sit on 
Flash of lightning — a glass 

of gin 
Flash — language used by 

thieves, gypsies ; to sport 
Flashman, — a prostitute's 

bully 
Flash cove — the keeper of a 

place for the reception of 

stolen goods 
Flashing his gab — showing 

off his talk 
Flash his ivory —showing off 

his teeth 
Flat — a raw, an inexperi- 
enced fellow, a fool 
Flat-catcher — pd article to 

dupe the public 
Fleec'd — clean-d out, stript 
Flick — to cut 
Flicker — a drinking glass 
Flimsies — Bank of England 

notes 
Flipper — the hand 
Floatingacademy — the hulks 

at Woolwich, for convicts 
Flogger — a whip 
Floored — knock'd down 
Floorers — fellows who throw 

people down in the street, 

&c. when their companions 

under the pretence of as- 
sisting, rob them 
Flowers of society — the or- 

laments of high life, uig- 

*ees 

, acquainted with 



Flyers — shoes 

Flying colours, to come off 
with — to come off with 
luck, to do any thing with 
advantage to yourself 

Flue faker — a chummy, a 
sweep 

Fogle — pocket handkerchief 

Fogo — stink 

Fog — smoke 

Fogus — tobacco 

Fogay — a stupid fellow 

Footing — money paid by a 
prostitute when going 
among her companions, 
also money paid on enter- 
ing into any trade or call- 
ing amongst mechanics 

Fork — a pickpocket 

Fork it out — to produce any 
thing by the hand 

Forks — fore and middle fin- 
gers 

Fresh water bay - Fleet-mar- 
ket 

Frisk — mischief 

Frontispiece- -the face 

Frow — a prostitute 

Frummdgem'd — choked, or 
hang'd 

Frumper — sturdy blade 

Fu !ge — gammon 

Fuller's earth — gin 

Fumbles — gloves 

Funk — stew, to fret 

Funk — to cheat, alarm, tc 
smoke, stink 

Funkers — the very lowest op 
der of thieves 



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G. 

Gab— the mouth 
Gaff — a faii- 
Gaffing— tossing with the 

pie -man 
Gag, high — on the whisper, 

nosing, telling secrets 
Gag, low — the last degree of 
beggary ; to ask alms in 
the streets with a preten- 
ded broken limb 
Gage— a quart pot 
Cagglers coach — a hurdle 
Gaiters; blacklegs, gamblers 
Galligaskins — breeches 
Gams — the legs 
Game — courageous, sturdy, 

hearty, hardened 
Gammon — falsehood or bom- 
bast 
Gammoners — cheats, swind- 
lers 
Gan — the mouth 
Gape seed — any thing that 

attracts the sight 

Garnish — money demanded 

of people entering into 

prison 

Gay tyke boys — dog fanciers 

Gee — su table ; that won't 

gee, won't do 
Gelter — money 
Gentry cove — a gentleman 
Gentry ken — a gentleman's 

house 
George, y 'How — a guinea 
George — a half-crown piece 
Gig — fun, nonsense, ready, 

on the alert 
Gill — a cove, fellow 
Gills — cheeks 



Gin spinner — proprietor of 

a "in shop 
Ginny — an instrument to lift 
up a grate, in order to steal 
what articles are in the 
window 

Giving turnips — to cut ac- 
quaintance, to shun any 
body 

Glazier — one that breaks 
windows and show glasses 
in order to steal goods ex- 
posed for sale 

Glibe — a writing 

Glim — the candle, or light 

Glims — peepers, eyes 

Glims flashy — a person in a 
passion 

Giim Jack — a link boy 

Glimstick — a candlestick 

Glim fenders — hand irons 

Gloak — a man 

Glue — the lady's fever, ve- 
nereal disease 

Gnostics — knowing ones 

Go it — ke« p on 

Go slow — draw it mild, easy 

Go by — to rise by superior 
force, turn the tables 
against you 

Gob stick — a silver table 
spoon 

God permit — a stage coach 

Goggles — the eyes 

Goldfinch — yellow boy, gold 
coin 

Gone to pot — become poor 
in circumstances, gone to 
the dogs 

Goose, to — to hiss like a 
goose 

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Goth, A — a fool, an idiot 

Grabb — snatch 

Grab the bit — to seize the 
money 

Grabbed — taken, or appre- 
hended 

Grand strut— Rotten Row, 
Bond Street 

Grand twig — in prime stile 

Grannum gold — old hoarded 
coin 

Gravel digger — a sharp-toed 
dancer 

Gravel tax — money robbed 
from people on the high- 
way 

Grease — money 

Greek — St,Giles's, slang lan- 
guage 

Greeks — gamblers,blacklegs 

Green bag — lawyer 

Green — raw, unlearned 

Greenhorn — a sponge, a raw 
countryman 

Grig — nit j i y fellow, merry 
companion 

Grinders — the teeth 

Groaners — a sort of wretches 
who attend meetings, sigh- 
ing and looking demure ; 
in the meantime their pals 
pick the pockets of those 
persons who may be in the 
same pew with them. — 
They also rob the congre- 
gation of their watches, as 
:they are coming out of 
church ; exchange their 
bad hats for good ones — 
jocosely called hat making; 
steal piayer-books, &c; 



also fellows who go round 
with street preachers,who 
while the mock parson is 
preaching, they pick the 
pockets of the listeneis j 
Groat — a flag, four-pence I 
Grogham — a horse 
Gropers — blind men 
Gropusses — the pockets 
Ground sweat — to be buried 
Grub — provender, victuals 
Grub and bub — victuals and 

drink 
Grunter — a pig- 
Grunter — a bob, shilling 
Guinea pig — a fellow who 
receives a guinea for puff- 
ing off an unsound horse 
Gull — to cheat,circumvent 
Gulpin — a raw, a yokel, un- 
learned 
Gum — abusive language 
Gunpowder — an old woman 
Gutter lane — the throat 
Gutting a quart pot — drink* 
ing a pot of beer 

H. 
Hack — a hackney coach 
Half and half — half seas over 

tipsy 
Halt a bull — half a crown 
Haifa hog — half a shilling 
Haifa grunter — sixpence 
Half nap — venture, hesita- 
tion 
Hams — breeches 
Hammering — excessive hea- 
vy thumps with the fists 
Hamlet — high constable 
Hand over — to bribe 



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dence not to appear against 
a culprit, to drop an argu- 
ment, an action 

Handle the ribbing, to knock 
the ribs about 

Hang it up —to leave a rec- 
koning unpaid at a public 
house 

Handle — a tool, a silly fel- 
low 

Hard up — in a queer way, 
money all gone 

Harman — a constable 

Harmans — the stocks 

Havannah, under a canopy 
of— sittingwhere there are 
many persons smoking to- 
bacco 

Hawks — swindlers, sharpers 

Hawks — an advantage 

Hear any thing knock — do 
you take the hint 

Hearing cheats— ears 

Heave — to rob 

Heavy brown — beer 

Heavy plodders — Stock bro- 
kers 

Hedge taverns, public houses 
on the road side, little fre- 
quented by travellers 

Heavers — breasts 

Hedge creeper* — ihe mean- 
est" order of thieves 

Hedge bird — mean scoundrel 

Hedge — to secure a bet by 
betting on the contrary 
side 

Hedge off— slink otT to avoid 
serious consequences 

Hell— a gambling house 

Hell cat— a lewd abandoned 
woman 



Hell hound — profligate im- 
pudent fellow 

Hempen casement — a halter 

Hempen furniture — money 
rewards for convicting fe- 
lons by thief takers and 
others; commonly called 
blood money 

Hempen widow — a woman 
whose husband has been 
hanged 

Hen — woman 

Hick Jop — a bumpkin, a fool 

Hick Sam — a country fellow, 
a fool 

High pads — thieves, or foot- 
pads, who rob on the high- 
way on foot, of the same 
class as scamps and spicers 

High flyer — an audacious, 
impudent « onian 

High tide — having plenty of 
money 

High tobers — the highest or- 
der of thieves, who rob on 
ihe highway, well dressed, 
and mounted on fine horses 

High gloak — well dressed 
highwayman 

High jinks — gamblers, a set 
of fellows who keep little 
goes, take in insurances; 
also attendants at the E.O. 
tables, and at the races ; 
fellows always on the loa 
ou f . to rob unwary conn 
trymon at cards 

Hob — a bumpkin, a clod- 
hopper 

Hobbled on the leg — a trans- 
ported felon ironed on the 
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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



leg, and sent on board the 
hulks 

Hog — a shilling 

Hog grubber — a sneaking 
mean fellow, a cadger 

Hog grunter — a close-sifted, 
narrow-souled, mean fel- 
low 

Hoisters — shop-lifters, fel- 
lows who go into shops, 
and under the pretence of 
buying goods, generally 
conceal some article un- 
der the sleeves of the coat, 
mostly frequenting jewel- 
ler's shops 

Hoister mots — women who 
go into shops and steal 
some small article 

Holy land — St. Giles's, from 
St. Giles being thepat-ron 
saint of beggars 

Hoofs — the feet 

Hoof it — to walk 

Hooked — overreached 

Hookers — thieves 

Hop, a sixpenny — a dancing 
roomwhere sixpence is the 
price of admission 

Hop merchant — a dancing 
master 

Hop the twig — run away 

Harness — watchmen, consta- 
bles, police officers 

Hot flannel — liquor made of 
beer and gin, with eggs, 
sugar, and nutmeg 

Hue — to whip, lash 

Huff— a bullying cowardly, 
fellow 

Huggar — drunk 

Hum box — pulpit 



Hum — a liar, a canting de- 
ceitful Wesley an methodist 

Hum — to humbug, deceive 

Hums — people. at church 

Humpty dumpty — boiled ale 
and brandy 

Hunting — drawing unwary 
people to play 

Hush still — qu'et 

Hush money — money given 
to compound felony 

Huskey lour — a guinea, gold 
coin 



Index — the face 

Ignoramus — a stupid fellew 
a novice 

Inexpressibles — breeches 

Ingle boxers — jacks tipped 
with silver, and hung with 
bells 

Ingler — horse dealer of bad 
character 

Interlopers — lazy fellowswho 
are dependent on the ge- 
nerosity of their friends 
for support 

Irish apricots — potatoes 

Irish evidence — false witness 

Irish legs — thick legs 

Iron doublet — a parson 

Iron — money 

Itch land — Scotland 

Ivories — the teeth 



Jack — a farthing 

Jack Adams — a muflf, stupid 

fellow 
Jack at a pinch — a hackney 

parson 



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Jack in a box — a sharper, a 
cheat 

Jack cove — a sloven, dirty 
fellow 

Jack-a-dandy— a little im- 
pertinent fellow 

Jack pudding—merry An- 
drew, a clown 

Jacken closer — a seal 

Jacob — a ladder 

Jacobites — sham or collar 
shirts 

Jackrum — license for mar- 
riage 

Jam — gold ring 

Jarvey— hackney coachman 

Jasey — a wig 

Jaw — abusive language 

Jehu — a coachman 

Jemmy — twopenny, head 

Jenny — a pick-lock 

Jet — a lawyer 

Jet Autem — a parson 

Jew — an over-reaching fel- 
low 

Jig — a trick 

Jigger — a door, bolt, or pri- 
vate still 

Job — guinea 

Jobber knot — a tall stupid 
fellow 

Jock gagger — fellows who 
live on the prostitution of 
their wives, &c. 

Joe — an imaginary per- 
son, nobody ; as, Who do 
those things belong to i 
Joe 

J oiler head — a heavy dull 
blustering landlord 

Jones's, Mrs. — the coflee 
house, privy 



K. 



Kate — a picklock 

Keep up the ball — to live & 
be jolly 

Keep the line, to — to behave 
with decorum 

Ken — a cribb, room 

Ken-cracker — house breaker 

Ken Bowman — a well-fur- 
nished house 

Ken, flash — a house where 
thieves and vagrants re- 
sort 

Ken miller — house breaker 

Kick — sixpence 

Kick — to borrow money, to 
ask a favour 

Kick the bucket — to expire 

Kicksies — breeches 

Kid — a fellow thief 

Kiddies — flash fellows 

Kid lays — villains who de- 
fraud boys of their parcels 
and goods 

Kiddiess — a slap up well- 
dressed girl 

Kid, with — pregnant 

Kid-nappers — fellows who 
steal children, and decoy 
countrymen and strangers 
in the street, to rob them ; 
also recruiting crimps. 

Kidwy — a hief's child 

Kill devil — new rum, from 
its pernicious quality 

Kinchin — a young child 

Kimbau — to defraud, cheat 

King's mots — female chil- 
dren carried on the backs 
of strollers and beggars 
to excite the pity of the 
public 



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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



King's picture — king's head 
on gold coin 

Kinchin coves — fellows who 
steal children for gypsies, 
beggars, &c. 

Knacker — an old good for 
nothing horse 

Knife it — stow it, be quiet 

Knight — a poor silly fellow 

Knight of the awl — a snob, 
cobler 

Knight of the hod — a brick- 
layer's labourer 

Knight of the road — a high- 
wayman 

Knight of the brush and 
moon — a drunken fellow 

Knight of the post — a per- 

I jurer, false swearers, fel- 
lows employed to give 
false evidence 

Knight of the blade — a bul- 
lying sham captain, abrag- 
gadocia 

Knights of the rainbow — 
waiters, footmen, lacqueys 

Knowledge box — the jemmy, 
head 

Knuckles — pickpockets 

Knuckle dabs — ruffles 

Ky-bosh on, lo put the— to 
turn the tables on any per- 
son, to put out of counte- 
nance 

L. 

Lady-bird, — a sweetheart, 

bed-fellow 
Laced woman — a virtuous 

female 
Lady's man — an obsequious 

fellow to females 



Lady in mourning — holten- 

tot girl 
Lig — to transport 
Lagged — transported 
a per 

on the water 
Lame ducks — defaulters at 

the Stock Exchange 
Lambskin men — the judges 
Lantern, dark — a servant or 

agent that receives a bribe 

to conceal a robbery 
Lap — butter-milk, whey 
Lap, rum — good liquor 
Lap, queer — bad liquor 
Lap feeder — a spoon 
Lapping your congou 

drinking your tea 
Lark — a bit of mischief, fun 
Leading-strings — the con- 
trol of friends 
Leery — fly, up, acquainted 
Leerers — the eyes 
Left, over the — no go, it 

wont do 
Leg bail — running away 
Leg o'mutton sleeves — large 

sleeves worn by the ladies 
Levanters — persons who run 

away from their debts of 

honour 
Lib — to live together 
Lib ken — lodging house 
Libbege — a bed 
Lifter — a robber of shops 
Ligating a candle — sneaking 

out of a public house with 

out paying the reckoning 
Light blue — gin 
Lightning — gin 
Lightning, a noggen of — a 

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FI ASH DICTIONARY 



Lightments — the day 

Lil — a pocket book 

Lily white — a snowball, a 
black, a chimney sweep 

Limbo — prison 

Line, getting into a — con- 
fusing a person, imposing 
on any body's belief by 
joking 

Lingo — slang, language 

Link it — turn it out 

Lipish — saucy 

List, or Loist — shop-lifting, 
robbing a shop 

Little Barbary — Wapping 

Litile shillings — love money 

Lively kid — a funny fellow, 
a brave man 

Loap'd — run away 

Lob — money till 

Lob — an easy foolish fellow 

Lob lolly — a queer cooked 
mess 

Lob's pound — a prison 

Lobsters — sold iers 

Lock — a warehouse for the 
reception of stolen goods 

Lock, rum — being in good 
health; rich, clever, ex- 
pert 

Locksmith's daughter — key 

Loge — a watch 

Loose house — round house, 
or cage 

Lord — a deformed, hump- 
backed person 

Lour — money 

Low- water mark — having lit- 
tle money 

Lugs, or listeners — the ears 

Lully — wet linen 

Lullaby cheat — an infant 



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Lully priggers — the lowest 
order of thieves, who de- 
coy children to some bye 
place' and rob them of 
their clothes 

Lully snow prigging — steal- 
ing wet linen from hedges 

Lumber ken — a pawnbro- 
ker's shop 

Lumber the ticker — to pawn 
a watch 

Lurch, in the — to be left be- 
hind, to sneak, to hang on 

Lush cribs — sluicery's, gin 
shops 

Lush — drink 

Lush ken — an alehouse 

Lushingtons — drunkards 

M. 

Mace — to rob, steal 

Mackry — the country 

Mad Toms of Bedlam — fel- 
lows who counterfeit mad- 
ness in the streets, and 
alter beating themselves 
about, spit out some blood p 
in order to convince the 
too feeling multitude that 
they have injured them- 
selves by violent struggles, 
and so obtain relief: they 
have a small bladder of 
sheep's blood in their 
mouth, and when they 
choose can discharge it. 

Made — stolen 

Mag — halfpenny 

Make, to — to steal 

Malty coves — beer drinkers 

Mary-la-bone kick — a kick 
in the belly 



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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Marrowbones — the knees 

Mat macers — fellows and old 
women who go round in a 
morning when the servants 
are cleaning the doorways 
and steal the mats, Sec. 

Maunder — beggar 

Maundering — begging 

Maims, tip us your — give me 
your hand 

Mawley — the fist 

Mawmouth — one that splut- 
ters in his talk 

Max — gin 

Mazzard — the head 

Mest — to spend 

Middle-piece — the stomach 

Mill — thump, fight 

Mill the glaze — breaking 
windows or lamps 

Mill the ken — break open 
the house 

Mill his not) — break his head 

Mill clapper — a woman's 
tongue 

Milldoll — to beat hemp in 
Bridewell 

Miller — a boxer 

Missing — courting; to be 
gone, or away 

Misstopper — coat and petti- 
coat 

Mizzle — go, begone 

Moabites — bailifts and their 
crew 

Mog — a He 

Moisten your chaffer — drink 

Monish, tip us the — give me 
the money 

Monkey up — being in a vio- 
lent passion 



Mo pus — a halfpenny 
Moon curses — link boys 
Moonshine — nonsense, flum- 
mery 
Morriss of! — to run away 
Mother— a name lor the 

keeper of a brothel 
Mother's milk — rum boose, 

good liquor 
Mots — cyprians, whores 
Mount —to give false evi- 
dence 
Mounter — a common perju- 
ror, villains who give false 
evidence and become bail 
for fellows of their own 
stamp 
Mouth — a stupid fellow, a 

novice 
Move — an incident, an action 

in life 
Mower — a cow 
Muck— money 
Muck, to — to clean out, to 

win all a person's money 
Muck'd — lost all at play, no 

money left 
Mud pipes— thick boots 
Muff — a raw, a silly fellow 
Mufflers — sparring gloves 
Mug — the face 
Mugs, cutting of — making 

faces 
Mullygrubs — the belly ache 
Mummer — the mouth 
M jmmers— strolling players 
mountebank speakers, gyp- 
sies, and beggars who tell 
pitiful stories to excite 
compassion 
Muns — mouth 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



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Mumbling cove -a sturdy 
ill-natured landlord, shab- 
by fellow 

Murphie- — potatoes 

Muzzle — the mouth 

N. 
Nab— to steal 
Nabb'd — taken 
Nail — to lay hold 
Natty lads — young thieves 
Nash — to bolt, to run away 
Needfull — money 
Never wag, man of war — the 

Fleet Prison 
Neat thing — good liquor 
Nab — a hat 
Nabs — a person of either sex; 

a familiar way of talking; 

as, How are yon, my 

Nabs? 
Nab the bib — to cry and wipe 

the eyes 
Nab the rust — to receive the 

money 
Nab the noge — to receive a 

guinea 
Nab the clout — steal a hand- 
kerchief 
Nab the cramp — having sent 

tence of death passed 
Nab the bung — to receive a 

purse 
>ask — a prison 
Napper, or Naps — a sheep- 

s ealer 
Nap per — the head 
Ne'er a face but his own — 

not a farthing in his pocket 

-wli k.% or Noolucks — a 
ers on not known, an ima- 



ginary being, said to be a 
kin to Joe, Cheeks, &c 

Nibble — thieve, steal 

Nicks — nothing 

Nim — to steal 

Nimmer — a thief of the low- 
est order 

Niggers — fellows who clip 
and file the gold coin 

Nig — clipping of money 

Nick it — to win a wager 

Nip — a cheat 

Nipperkin — half pint mea- 
sure 

Nix, or nix my doll — nothing 

No go — it won't do, a bad 
experiment 

Nob — the head 

Nob — a head : a fellow car- 
rying a high head, a man 
of money, of respectabi- 
lity 

Nob thatcher — a hat maker 

Nob, old — a favourite game 
used by sharpers, called 
pricking in the hat 

Nobbers — blows, thumps 

Noddle — empty headed, shal- 
low pated, stupid 

Noll — a wig 

Noodle — a sawney 

Norway neckcloth — the pil- 
lory 

Norfolk capon — a soldier, a 
red herring 

Nose, a — one who splits or 
tells 

Nose, to — to expose, tell 

Nozzle — the nose 

Nub — the neck 

Nubbing — hanging 



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FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Nubbing cove — the fctogmair 
Nubbing ken— Uie sessions 

house 
Nubbing cheat — the gallows 
Nail gropers — people who 
sweep the streets in search 
of old iron, nails, &c. 
Nunnery — a brothel 
Nurse — to cheat 
Nutty — fond 

Nut crackers — the pillory 
Nutmeg grater — the beard 

O. 

Oak — a rich man of credit, 

substance 
Office — warning, notice 
Ogles — the eyes 
Ogles in mourning — black 
eyes 

Ogles, rum — fine piercing 
eyes 

Oil of palm — money 

Old One, or Old Harry- 
names for the devil 

Old Tom — good gin 

Old toast — a bri.sk lively old 
man 

Oliver — the moon 

Oliver widdles — the moon 
shines 

Oliver sneaks — the moon hid 
under a cloud, has got his 
upper Ben on 

Oli compoli — a rogue of the 
canting crew 

On the pot — being in trouble 
vex r d 

On the mallet — having goods 
on trust 

One two — two blows suc- 
ceeding each other 



One in ten — a parson 

Optics — the eyes 

Operators — pickpockets 

Os chives, bone handleknives 

Outandouter — arum'un, a 
good fellow at any thing, 
a trump 

Ousted — turned out, thrown. 

Over the left— it won't do,' 
no go 

Over the bender — over the 
bridge 

Overseer— a fellow in the 
pillory 

Owlers — runners and smug- 
glers of wool 

P. 

Pad —a highwayman who 

robs on foot 
Pad it— to walk 
Palm — to fee, to hand over 
Pali i aid — beggars who bor 
row children, the bette. 
to obtain charity 
Panum— victuals 
Panum struck — very hungry 
wanting something to eat 
Pan tier — a butler 
Param — bread 

Parings — clippings of money 
Panter — heat 
Pat — an accomplice or com 

panion 
Patter — slang f 

Patter slang — to talk flash * 
Pattered — ti ied in a court or 

justice for felony 
Pave — the pathway 
Paviers workshop, the stree 
Peck and boose — victuals 
and drink 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



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Peel — to strip 

Peeper — looking glass 

Peepers — eyes 

Peel your skin — strip, pull 

offyour clothes 
Peery — suspicious 
Pes a hack— to drive aback* 

ney coach 
Peg, or peg stick — a bender, 

a shilling 
Peg tantrums — dead 
Penance board — pillory 
Persuaders — cudgels or spurs 
Peter — a trunk 
Peteress — persons who make 

it their business to steal 

boxes from the lacks of 

coaches, chaises, and other 

carriages 
Pewter — money 
Pewter, to unload — to drink 

porter out of a quart pot 
Philistines — bailiffs and their 

crew 
Phizog. — the face 
Pickling tubs — Wellington, 

or top boots 
Picture frame — the gallows, 

or pillory 
Pig — a sixpence 
Pigman — a trap, or bailiff 
Pigeon — a meek stupid easy 

fellow 
Pike off — run away 
Pinch — to steal money under 

pretence of getting change 

see Ringing the changes 
Pimple — the head 
Pinks of fashion — dashing 

fellows 
Pins— t\vi gams, legs 



Pippin — funny fellow, friend 
ly way of expressing one's 
self, as * How are you, my 
Pippin ?' 

PiauKet — concealed 

Pockets to let — empty pock 
ets, no money 

Point non plus — neither mo- 
ney nor credit 

Poke fun — to chaff, joke 

Poke — a bag, or sack 

Poker — a sword 

Poney — money 

Pop— to pledge or pawn 

Poplers — mess of pottage 

Poppers — pistols 

Potato, drop it like a — to 
drop any thing suddenly 

Potato trap — the mouth 

Potato, red hot, take a — a 
word by way of silencing 
a person, a word of con- 
tempt 

Pol scum — bad or stinking 
dripping 

Pothooks and hangers— short 
hand characters 

P's & Q's, mind your — mind 
what you're at 

Poundage cove — a fellow 
who receives poundage for 
procuring customers for 
damaged goods 

Prad — a horse 

Prancers — horses 

Prate roast —a loquacirus 
fellow 

Pratt — buttocks 

Piicking in the wicker for a 
dolphin — stealing bread 
from a baker's basket 
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Prigs — thieves and pickpoc- 
kets 

Prime twig — high condition 

Prog — victuals 

Prog, ram — good victuals 

Prog, queer — bad victuals 

Property — an easy fellow, a 
tool made use of to serve 
any purpose, a cat's paw 

Provender — a person from 
whom any money is taken 
on the high road 

Pudding house — the work- 
house 

Pull — having the advantage 
over an adversary 

Pull out — come it strong 

Punch — a blow 

Punish — to beat in fighting 

Punisher — one who beats 
soundly 

Pupil's straits— school tui- 
tion 

Purgatory, trouble, perplex- 

« ity 

Purl, royal — ale and gin 

made warm 
Purse — a sack 
Put — a country fellow, silly, 

foolish 
Putty and soap — bread and 

cheese 

Q. 

Quarroms — a body 

O'leer — base, doubtful, good 
fov nothing, bad 

Queer bit makers — coiners 

Queer buffer — sharp inn kee- 
per 

Queer street, to be in — in a 
quandary 



Queer cove — a rogue, villain 
Queer ogles — squinting eyes 
Queer patter — foreign talk 
Queer rotar — a bad iil-look 

ing coach 
Queer rag — ill-looking mo- 
ney, base coin 
Queer blowing — ugly wench 
Queer gill — suspicious fellow 
Queer plungers, fellows who 

pretend to be drowned 
Queer cole makers — coiners 

of bad money 
Queer lap — bad liquor 
Queer beak — strict justice, 

upright judge 
Queer rag — bad farthing 
Queer bit — counterfeit mo- 
ney 
Queer lully — deformed child 
Queer tats — false dice 
Queer vinegar — worn out 

woman's cloak 
Queer belch — sour beer 
Queer cove — a turnkey 
Queer bid — insolvent shar- 
pers, who make a practies 
of bailing persons arrested 
Queer cat lap — bad tea 
Queer chum — a suspicious 

companion 
Queer pops — bad pistols 
Queer put— an ill-looking 

foolish fellow 
Queer thimble — good for 

nothing watch 
Queer hen — a bad woman 
Quota — whacks, share 
Quod cull— a goal keeper 
Quail pipe — woman's tongue 
Queer prad — broken-knee'd 
horse 



FLASH DICTIONARY 



27 



Queer lambs — bad dice 
Queer Nantz — bad brandy 
Queer nicks — breeches worn 

out 
Queer dosren — rusty sword 
Queer buffer — a cur 
Queer barmen beak — a strict 

beadle 
Queer gum — outlandish talk 
Queer glim — a bad light 
Queer ken — a gentleman's 
house without the furni- 
ture 
Queer doxy — a clumsy wo- 
man 
Queer booze — bad beer 
Queer amen curler — a drun- 
ken parish clerk 
Qui (am — a shark, lawyer 
Qui vive — on the alert, in 

expectation 
Quid — a goldfinch, sovereign 
Quiz — a queer one, a gig, an 

aboriginal 
Quod — prison 

R. 

Radical — Hunt's breakfast 

powder, roasted corn 
Rag — money; I've no rag, 

meaning I've no notes 
Rag — blow up, rap out, scold 
Rainbow — a tailor's pattern 

book 
Rainbows — gay young bucks 
Rain napper — an umbrella 
Rap — I'm not woith a rap, 

I've got no money 
Rap — give evidence, take 

false oath 
Rap out — to swear, blow up, 

be in a passion 



Rat — drunken man orwoman 
taken in custody for break- 
ing the lamps 
Rattling cove — a hackney 

coachman 
Rattl ing gloak, a simple easy 

fellow 
Rattling mumpers — beggars 

who ply coaches 
Ready — money 
Reader — a pocket-book 
Red rag — the tongue 
Red rag, give your, a holi- 
day — hold your tongue 
Red tape — Cogniac, brandy 
Regular — in proper course 
Regulars — persons thus call- 
ed from their leaving par- 
ties of pleasure at eleve 
or twelve o'clock at night, 
to the no small discomfi- 
ture of many an out-and 
outer 
Regent — half a sovereign 
Resurrection men, — fellows 
who steal dead bodies from 
the church yard for the 
surgeons 
j Rhino — grease, money 
| Ribbon — money 
j Ridge — gold outside of a 
watch, or other article 
Ridge cove — a wealthy gold- 
smith 
Riff raff— black beetles, the 

lower order of people 
Rig — fun, game, diversion 
Rig out — a suit of clothes 
Rig conoblin — cutting the 
string of large coals hang- 
ing at the door of coal 
sheds D f 



28 



?LASH DICTIONARY. 



Rigging-— ciot hi ng 

Right and fiy — complete 

Ring — to exchange one ar- 
ticle for another 

Rise, a — a disturbance 

River tic&, tradesmens books 

Riviss- — money 

Roger — a portmanteau 

Rolled up — put in a spung- 
ing house 

Romoners — felloes pretend- 
ing to be acquainted with 
the occult sciences, for- 
tune tellers 

Rome ville — London 

Rookery — an ill furnished 
bouse 

Roses — nobility 

Rotan — a coach 

Rot gut,— swankey, small 
beer 

Row — disturbance, f and in 
the ken to breed a row' 

Roysters, — noisy turbulent 
fellows, rude vile singers 

Roundyken, the watch house 

Rumpus — a scuffle 

Rub — an obstacle in theway, 
to run away, to make off 

Rub out when i!s dry — all 
right when its forgotten 

Huffman — any person who 
handles a thief roughly ; 
the wood, hedges 

Rugg — all right and safe 

Rug carrier — an ensign 

Rum blowing — a handsome 
girl 

Rum hopper -a waiter at a 
tavern 

Rum mot — a woman of the 
town 



j Rum bod — a shop till 
Rum peepers — fine looking 

glasses, or bright eyes 
Rum speaker — good booty 
Rum job, or rum dagen — a 

handsome sword 
Rum quids — guineas 
Rum pad — the high road 
Rum maundy — t el lows who 
counterfeit the fool, going 
about the streets in order 
to obtain charity 
Rum kicks — breeches 
Rum file, or rum diver — a fe 

male pickpocket 
Rum glimmer — head of the 

link boy 
Rum bodick — diity shabby 

fellow 
Rum beak — sensible justice 
Rum doxy — fine made wench 
Rum drawers — silk stockings 
Rum gloak — well dressed 

man 
Rum N'antz — good brandy 
Rum ghelt,or rum cole — new 

money 
Rum squeeze — wine orother 

liquor given to fiddlers 
Rum prancer — fine horse 
Rum rufe peck — Westpha- 
lia ham 
Rum prad — a highwayman's 

horse 
Rum duke — queer old fellow, 

rich man 
Rum gill — a man who ap- 
pears to have plenty o« 
money 
Rum rush — a number of vil- 
lains rushing into a house 
in order to rob it 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



29 



Rum gutters — cape wine 
Rum quid— good guinea 
Rum chaunt — good song 
Rum booze — good wine, or 

any liquor 
Rum buffer— valuable dog 
Rum cly — a full pocket 
Rum feeder— large silver ta- 
ble spoon 
Rum gaggers— ~ cheats who 

tell wonderful stories of 

their sufferings at sea, in 

order to obtain money 
Rum dropper — a vintner 
Rum cove — good natured 

landlord 
Rum fun — sharp trick 
Rum bung — full purse 
Rum bow — rope stolen from 

any of the king's dock-yard 
Rum clout — handkerchief 
Rum bluffer — a jolly host 
Rum bleating cheat — a fat 

sheep 
Rum back — good natured 

Irishman 
Rum barking irons — prime 

pistols 
Rum dumber — good natused 

prince of the canting crew 
Rum quod cull — a gaoler 
Hum, or monogin — good, the 

most valuable of any thing 

jewels, diamonds 
Hum un — a trump, a good 

fellow 
Rum ti turn with the chill 

°S — good, slap up, the 

tippy, excellent 
Ryder —a cloak 

d a 



s. 

Sack — a pocket 

Sack, to — to take up 

Sam — a foolish fellow an 
idiot 

Sam, to stand — to pay for all 

Sangaree — rack punch 

Sans prisado — a person wtw 
comes into company with- 
out any money 

Saving one's bacon — to es- 
cape with a whole skin, to 
evade any accident 

Seedy; poor, miserable look- 
ing, without money 

Scamp — a thief 

Setter — persons using the 
haunts of thieves in order 
to give information for 
the reward 

Seven-pence, to stand — to 
suffer seven years trans- 
portation 

Sew up the sees — to give a 
person two black eyes 

Scandal broth — tea 

Scamp foot — a street robber 

Scent box — the nose 

School butter — whipping 

Scot — a savage person 

Scotch fiddle — itch 

Scottish — savage, wild, cha- 
grined 

Score — a debt, fine 

Scout — a watchman or beadle 

Screwbado — a dirty fellow 
insignificant 

Scroof — to go about living 
with friends at their ex* 
pence 

Scran — victuals 



30 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Scrap — a villanous scheme 
Screw — a miser 
Screw loose — a quarrel be- 
tween two individuals, 
something- wrong in a 
man's affairs 
Screen — a pound note 
Sharps — persons ready to 
take you in on all occasions 
Shake a toe — to dance 
Shark — a lawyer 
Shade, nice to a — very par- 
ticular 
She lion — a shilling 
Shell — to contribute, club 
Sherry — run away, be gone 
Sheriff's ball — an execution 
Shindy — a regular row, a 

general quarrel 
Shiners — guineas 
Shirk — to cut, to skulk 
Shop — a gaol 

Shop lobber — a dressed up 
silly coxcomb of a shop- 
man^a powdered fop 
Shopped — imprisoned 
Shoot — to go skulking about 
Shooting the cat — vomiting 
Shove — crowd, nush 
Shove the tumbler — whipped 

at the cart's tail 
Shove in the mouth — a glass 

of gin 
Shoving the moon — moving 

goods by moonlight 
Shoulder knot — a bailiff 
Shuffle — go, nioi! -iss, begone 
Slum — gammon, sham 
Shv cock — a person afraid 

of a bailiff 
Siester — a nap after dinner. 
a short sitep 



Sidle — come close to 

Signers — See Groaners 

Sight, take a — a manner of 
expressing contempt or ri- 
dicule, by putting the 
thumb to the nose, with 
the fingers straight up in 
the air 

Sight — a lot, a great many, 
a great deal 

Sinkers — old stockings that 
have sunk the small parts 
into the heel 

Sipper — a tea spoon 

Six and eight -pence — a law- 
yer 

Sink hole — the throat 

Skewer — a sword 

Skin — a purse 

Skinners — villains who steal 
children ; kidnappers who 
entrap unwary men to en- 
list for soldiers 

Sky parlour — a garret, or 
first floor next the sky 

Slang — flash language, pat- 
ter 

Slanged— ironed on one leg 

Slap bang — victuals sold at 
a cook shop 

Slate — a sheet 

Sling tale and galena — fowl 
and pickle pork 

Slipped cove — got away 

Slogg — to thump hard 

Slogger — a miller, a boxer 

Siuicei y — a gin shop 

Sluiced* their gobs— drinb 
heartily 

Sluice — wet; moisten 

Slubber — a heavy stupid fei 
low 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



31 



Sty — contraband 

Smack the bit — share the 
booty 

Smart blunt — forfeit money 

Smart — regular, up, awake 

Smashing cove — housebrea- 
ker 

Smash — tobreak, strike, also 
bad coin 

Smash, a thigh of mutton 
and — leg of mutton, tur- 
nips, and capers 

Smasher — passer of bad mo- 
ney 

Smelt — half a guinea 

Smell a rat — to surmise some 
thing 

Smeller — the nose 

Smitter — the arm 

Smicket — a shift 

Smug — steal, nibble 

Snaffle — highwayman 

Sneak, on the morning — 
sneaking down into the 
kitchen, &c. just as the 
servants are up, and pur- 
Joining any small at tides, 
commonly practised by 
cadgers 

Sneezer — the nose 

Snitch, to turn -to nose, to 
tell tales, to turn a sneak 

Snorter- the nose 

Snooze- to sleep, doze 

Snoozing ken —a sleeping 
room 

Snow ba\l — a black man 

Snuffle — the nose 

S.mgc- — thief under a bed 

Solomon — the mass 

Some tiiti^ — a large amount 



Something short — a glass of 
liquor 

Soul driver methodist par- 
son 

South sea mountain — gin 

Speck, a bad — a bad under- 
taking 

Specks, barnacles, spectacles 

Spicer — footpad robber 

Spicer, high — highwayman 

Spike hotel — the Fleet, or 
King's Bench 

Spilt — overturned in a car- 
riage 

Spittleonian — yellow hand- 
kerchief 

Spoke with — to rob 

Spoke to, he's — taken by the 
officers, cast for death 

Spooney — a foolish fellew 

Spoil — to bruise, injure 

Spree — a lark, fun 

Spurs — diggers 

Spunge— to eat and drink at 
another's expence 

S quail — a dram 

Squeaker— a cross child, also 
a pot boy 

Squeezer— the drop at New- 
gate 

Stach to conceal a robbery 

Stoll - help, assistance 

Staller — an accomplice in 
picking of pockets by 
holding up the arms of 
persons 

Stam fish — to cant 

Stand the racket — treat, pay 
£ov all 

Stand the nonsense — pay the 
money, stand treat 



S2 



PLASH DICTIONARY. 



Stand still — a table 
Stale whimper — a bastard 
Stall — to make a stand ? to 

crowd 
Slag" — an accomplice who 

has turned king's evidence 
Slagged — discovered 
Stalier — an accomplice 
Stalling ken — broker's shop, 

or that of a person recei 

ving stolen goods 
Stampers — feet, shoes, stairs 
Stark naked — gin 
Star gazers, prostitutes who 

frequent hedge rows 
Stephen — money 
Slem, the — the goat, behind, 

what we sit upon 
Stifle a squeaker — to murder 

a child 
Sticks — goods, chattels 
Stiffner — a letter 
Stick fans — gloves 
Sticks — pistols 
Stone pitcher — Newgate 
Stoop — the pillory 
Stow it — drop it, be quiet 
Stow your whid — be silent 
Stranger — a guinea 
Strap — mallet, trust 
Stiammel — straw 
Stretching — hanging 
Straw chipper — a straw bon- 
net makers 
Strike — a guinea 
Strings of onions — the lower 

orders of society 
String, to — to impose on a 

person's belief by some 

joke or lie 
Strike me dead — small beer 
Strummer faker, hair dresser 



Stumps — the feet or legs 
Sucked — devilish drunk 
Suit of cover me properly—* 
suit of fashionable clothes 
Sugar, cock your leg and 
cry — a way of expressing 
triumph or joy, by stand- 
ingon one leg and shaking 
the other up, hooting ' su- 
gar' loudly 
Sufferer — a sovereign, also a 

tailor 
Swaddy — a lobster, soldier 
Swaddler — a pitiful fellow, a 
methodist preacher who 
preaches on the high road, 
when a number of people 
are assembled, his accom- 
plices pick their pockets 
Swag — a lot, much 
Swallow — the throat 
Swankey — swipes,tablebeer 
Sweeteners, guinea droppers 
Swell out of iuck — a decayed 

fop or dandy 
Swinger, one leg and a — a 
sound leg and a lame one 
Swig — liquor of any kind 
Swigs men — thieves who tra- 
vel the country under co- 
lour of buying old clothes 
Swindling gloak — a cheat 



Tackle — good clothes, akj 

a mistress 
Tag rag and bobtail— ^i 

tremes of low life 
Tail — a sword 
Tallymen — persons **x% .«• 

out clothes to sai>fcH i$ 

prians 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



:*3 



Tamarhoo, a hackney coach- 
man, so called from the 
song of l Tamarhoo ; or 
The Devil and the Hack- 
ney Coachman' 

Tanner — sixpence 

Tape — gin 

Tatt, rum — good dice 

Tatt, queer — bad dice 

Tatt. men — fellows who get 
their jiving by attending 
the gaming tables, and 
playing at dice 

Tater trap — the mummer, 
mouth 

Tatty tog — a gaming cloth 

Tattler — watch or clock 

Tea-pot — a negro 

Teaster — sixpence 

Teazer of catgut — a fiddler 

Tears of the tankard — drops 
of liquor 

Teaze — to whip at the cart's 
tail 

That's the ticket — just the 
thing, as it ought to be 

The dab's in quod -the 
rogue's in prison 

Thimble — a watch 

Three sheets in the wind — 
three parts drunk 

Throw the hatchet, to — to 
tell a marvellous story, or 
a lie, and swear its true 

Th ; urns — three-pence 

Tie — equal 

Ti v » of (he buttery — goose 

Tibby, one on your — I owe 
you one 

TrV-ke" a *valr,h 

TW" £»<ivy good 

1 irfiber- atches 



Timber merchant — a match 

dealer 
Time o' day — quite rightj 

the thing 
Tinker — sixpence 
Tip — money 
Tip — to give 
Tip your rags a gallop — to 

bolt, run away 
Tip street, to be in — to have 

plenty of money 
Tippy, the — just the thing 

as it ought to be 
Tip top — the highest, best 
Tits — horses 
Title-page — the face 
Tizzy — sixpence 
To nab a kid — to steal a 

child 
To sing small — to draw the 

horns in, to be humbled 
To mill a bleating cheat — to 

kill a sheep 
To diamond a horse — to put 

a stone under the shoe to . 

make it appear lame 
Toddle— to walk 
Toddlers — legs 
Tog and kicks — breeches & 

coat 
Togged — dressed 
Togman — a cloak 
Togs — -clothes 
Tol lol — pretty well in 

heal th 
Tolo bon rig — persons who 

go about the country tell 

ing fortunes by signs, pre- 
tending to be deaf and 

dumb 
Tolobon — the tongue 
Tombstones- teeth 



84 



PLASH DICTIONARY 



Tonic — a halfpenny 

Tooth pickers — Irish watch- 
men's shillalies 

Topper — a hat 

Topping — hanging 

Topping cove — hangman 

Touted — to be followed, or 
pursued 

Touch — to arrest 

Tout — to look out sharp, to 
guard 

Tow street, in — said of a 
person who is being mis- 
led or decoyed 

To we — ciipt money 

Town toddlers — silly fellows 
taken in by sharpers at 
play 

Town tabby — a dowager of 
quality 

Track — to go 

Traps — constables or thief 
takers 

Transporter — the mouth 

Tramp — to wander as a beg- 
gar 

Translators — sellers of old 
boots and shoes 

Trib — a prison 

Trine — to hang 

Trine — the new drop 

Trotters — the legs 

Trooper — a blowing, prosti- 
tute 

Trooper — half a crown 

Trump — a good one, a jolly 
fellow 

Trulls — the lowest order of 
prostitutes, followers of 
soldiers 

Truck — stealing money un- 
der pretence of changing 



Tuck — victuals 

Tuck cut — a good meal, a 
belyfull 

Tuck up fair — Newgate at a 
hanging time 

Tucked up — hanged ; mar- 
ried 

Tumbler — a cart 

Turn-up — a casual set-to. a 
fight 

Tulips of the goes — the high- 
est order of fashionables 

Tarter — a queer customer, a 
powerful enemy 

Turnip — a watch 

Turkey merchant — driver of 
turkeys 

Twelver — a shilling 

Twandlers- — pease 

Twig — to see, observe 

Twinkiers — the eyes 

Twirlers — hawUers of men's 
and women's clothes 

Twittoe — two 

Tykes — dogs 

Tyke boys — dog owners 

Tyro — a yokel, a noviciate 

U. 

Under the screw — in prison 

Under the rose — on the sly, 
concealed enjoyment 

Unload pewter, — drinking 
beer from pewter pots 

Unrigged — stripped of mo- 
ney and clothes 

Up — acquainted with the 
conversation of the com- 
pany, apprised of any 
transaction 

Up to slum -humotig or 
gammon 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



&5 



Up the spout — articles at the 
pawnhrokers 

Up the flue — being in trou- 
ble, on the pot 

Upper Benjamin — an upper 
coat 

Uprights — ale-house pots 

V. 

yamp — to pledge any article 

Vampers — stockings 

Vhite — gin 

Velvet — the tongue 

Velvet, to tip the — to talk to 
a woman, to impose by 
flowery language 

Victualling office — the sto- 
mach, or paunch 

Voil — town 

W. 

Wapstraw — Johnny Raw, 
a yokel, a countryman 

Wall flowers — old clothes 
exposed for sale 

Wall it — chalking a reckon- 
ing up at a public house 

Wall fruit — kissing against 
a wall 

Warm — rich 

Wattles — the ears 

Water pads — fellows who 
rob ships 

Water-headed — a snivelling 
fellow 

Wearing the breeches — the 
wife ruling the husband 

Wedge — silver plate 

Wet the other eye — take an- 
other glass 

Wetting the neck — drinking 

Whacks — shares of booty 



Wheadle — a sharper 
White wood — silver 
White port — gin 
Whither — silver bowl 
Whimpshire — Yorkshire 
Whiddler — a talkative fellow 

an informer 
Whirligig — the pillory 
Whistling shop — a public 

house in a prison 
Whisker — a bouncing lie 
White buzmen — pickpockets 
White toppers — white hats 
White tape — gin 
Whites — counterfeit silver 
Wiggen — the neck 
Win — a penny 
Wipe — fogle, handkerchief 
Wing — fly, up, acquainted 

with 
Wobble — to reel, drunk 
Wo ball — a milk woman 
Wood pecker; a punster 

joker ; player on words 
Wooden ruff — the pillory, 
as, he wore the wooden 
run 1 , he stood in the pil- 
lory 
W's, between the two — hit- 
ting in the belly beiwet-n 
wind and water 
Won't suit — no go, it won't 
do 

V. 
Yack and onions — wdv^iia.id 

seals 
Yam — to eat hearty 
Yankee— a tawney maj 
Yard of tape — a glaasoi ^10 
Yarmouth capon— a reu ttjr- 

ring 



ws 



FLASH DICTIONARY. 



Tarum — food made of milk 
fellow boys — gold finches, 

sovereigns 
Yellcwman — a yellow hand- 
kerchief 



Yelper — a fellow who makes 
pitiful lamentations of 
trifles 

Yokels — green horns, coun- 
trymen 



THE SIXTY ORDERS OF PRIME COVES. 



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Rum-bubbers 
Coves 
Groaners 
Duffers 

Out-and-outers 
Coiners 
Macers 
Swigs men 
Bully rocks 
lAilly priggers 
Ginglers 
Ken coves 
Bully huffs 
Starrers 
Strollers 
Mounters 
Shop lifters 
Swadiers 
Sweeteners 
Clapper dogens 
Cloak twitcher3 
Upright men 
Dubs men 
Forkers 
Bnl lies 
A ntem men 
Beau nappers 
Badgers 
Ca Igers 
Beau traps 



31. Twirlers 
3*2. Gammoners 

33. Groaners 

34. Fencers 

35. Spicers 

S?i. High topers 
H7. Footpads 
3S- Gamblers 
89- Swindlers 

40. Shoplifters 

41. .Sturdy beggars 

42. Pad priggers 

43. Money lenders 

44. Ken crackers 

45. Queer culls 

46. Rushers 

47. Fawney coves 

48. Divers 

49. Adam iglers 

50. Knackers 

51. Millers 

52. Smashers 
5%. Filers 

54. Gypsies 

55. Buffers 

56. Priggers 

57. Rum padde? 
5S. G aggers 

59 Dragsmen 
60. Blooas 



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CONTENTS OF NO. III. 

AU's Well f Fall of Paris 

Wilt thou dwell on the moun- Vive Enrico 

tain with me J Rise, Cvnthia, rise 

. Promenade WaUz ! (f -and March in Blue Beard 

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Let us haste to Kelvin Gro^'c 
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K'tty of the Clyde, a favourite 
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Tell her I'll love her, com- 
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PASCAL BR UNO; 

A BURLETTA, 

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